Applying the Strategic Perspective

Anna Getmansky (PhD, New York University) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and a visiting fellow in the Center for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include conflict and violence, both inter- and intra-state, and her dissertation considered the effects of domestic politics on government protection from insurgency and terrorism, and on the insurgents’ and terrorists’ choices of targets. At Carnegie Mellon she teaches courses on terrorism and insurgency as well as international conflict, and she previously taught international relations at NYU. Alejandro Quiroz Flores is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Government, University of Essex. He obtained his PhD in Politics at New York University in 2010, where he was also Clinical Assistant Professor. He specializes in Methodology, Political Economy, and International Relations. His work has appeared or is forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Economics and Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Foreign Policy Analysis.

• IntroductionI. FOUNDATIONS1. Evaluating Arguments about International Politics2. The Strategic Perspective: When Foreign Policy Collides With Domestic Politics3. Tools for Analyzing International Affairs4. An Introduction to Game TheoryII. WAR5. Why War: The Big Picture6. Domestic Theories of WarIII. PEACE7. How International Organizations Work, Or Don’t Work8. Global Warming: Designing a Solution9. Human Rights, International Law and Norms10. Free Trade or Fair: The Domestic Politics of Tariffs11. Globalization: International Winners and LosersIV. WORLD ORDER12. Foreign Aid, Poverty and Revolution13. Can Terrorism be Rational?14. A Democratic World Order: Peace without Democratization